The Chongzuka Army Town located behind Huaiyang Pass is different from Liuya Fuling. Most of them are defenders. However, compared with Huaiyang Pass, which has natural dangers to rely on, it seems a little less confident. In fact, on this line of defense, The guard of Chongzuka Army Town faced the other three colleagues with the same official rank, but he had never been very hard-headed, and his voice was never too loud. Liuya and Fuling towns have always had a considerable number of frontier cavalry troops stationed there. The chief generals of the two towns have some connections with the two current deputy cavalry commanders. It belongs to the Beiliang cavalry army sequence, but there are more infantry, but it has nothing to do with Gu Dazu's line, and it can't hold any thighs. The town is becoming more and more inconspicuous.
Xu Fengnian lives in a separate courtyard that has just been cleaned up. The courtyard is not big, but it is better than Yajing, a military town that is almost full of dignitaries at the border of Liangzhou. It is not easy to find such a courtyard at the moment. After Xu Fengnian stayed in the small courtyard, he sent a signal worth chewing and pondering to Shigezuka. The young vassal king did not summon the Jin Partridge Zhou Kang who sent His Royal Highness to Beijing with hundreds of veterans in the early years, nor did he summon him to come to Beijing in person. Gu Dazu, who had a unique eye to find out in the grassy rivers and lakes of the Central Plains, did not even summon Qi Dangguo, who was the adopted son of the general with Chu Lushan Yuan Zuozong, but called Ning Emei, who was born in Fengziying, to drink together in the yard.
The new deputy general of Tiefutu, Ning Emei, is still the funny man with rough appearance and delicate voice, but compared with the free and easy temperament in the past, he is a little more restrained in reason. Liang is not optimistic about His Royal Highness.
Xu Fengnian touched a glass of wine with Ning Emei, and said with emotion: "General Ning took a hundred people to accompany me to go to the rivers and lakes to mess around, including Hong Shuwen, many of them are not in Fengziying now, they have become local soldiers. Wu's captain and even the school captain, Yuan Meng is still there. A few days ago at the Tianjing Ranch, he complained to me, saying that he had mentioned to you that he wanted to enter the Tiefutu, but you didn't agree to it , and scolded him."
Ning Emei sat up straight subconsciously, and said with the graceful voice of an Eastern Yue woman: "In the past two years, the Fengzi Camp has changed a lot of new people and faces, and I will finally feel that there is an old man like Yuan Duwei staying in it, so I can rest assured." .”
Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "Some young people who came out of Fengziying as Baima Yicong occasionally meet in private, and I heard that they like to ask how many officials they have become and how many officials they hope to become. What they talk about is In the future, whoever becomes a frontier general and a frontier official will be able to support each other. This is a bit like the fellow countrymen of the same year in the imperial examination of the Liyang court. Back then, our earliest border crossbowmen in Beiliang also went through this stage. At the beginning of the reunion, they were always talking about who died in the battle, and they used that kind of envious tone. After a few years or ten years, it was different. They always asked about the size of the newly bought house, Xinna’s small What is the appearance of the concubine, and how many acres of high-quality fertile land are newly acquired."
Seeing the drastic change in Ning Emei's face, Xu Fengnian waved his hands and smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, these are all human beings. The situation in Fengziying is a rare situation for the time being. I understand the truth that there will be no fish when the water is clear, let alone Xu Xiao He also said the same thing. In his eyes, the world you and I live in now is very different from a few decades ago. At that time, almost everyone was thinking about how to survive, and everyone's head was tied to their pants. On the belt, the difference is nothing more than that the head of the common people is tied to the grass rope, and the head of the scholar-bureaucrat is tied to the more valuable jade belt. They all moved to the outside of Beiliang Road. Since staying in Beiliang might kill people, then escape to a place where there is no wolf smoke, and go to a place where you can’t hear Beimang’s horseshoes. If Huainan Road is not good, go to Jiangnan Road, someday Jiangnan Road There is also a war, and you can still go to the south of Guangling River, if you can't, go to southern Xinjiang, as long as you have money, you can flee all the way south, and you can survive in the end."
Xu Fengnian twirled the white porcelain wine glass, which was as exquisite as the household items of Jiangnan family, and slightly raised it, "I am one of the few extravagant people in the world. I know the price of this small wine glass. It is probably sold in rich places in the Central Plains." Two or three taels of silver, if you work hard to get to our Beiliang Road, you have to double it. Of course, if you really want to talk about it, there are countless valuables in Qingliang Mountain. Scholars in the Central Plains say that I am poor in Beiliang One million households, one rich family' is actually not wrong. There are as many as 300 pieces of precious calligraphy and paintings with the word "fake" on my handprint in Wutongyuan. It's just that compared with Zhong Hongwu and others. Man, I, Xu Fengnian, was known as a prodigal early on, so I'm not the same as these misers."
Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "When I was young, every time Xu Xiao went to Wutong Courtyard with priceless calligraphy and painting antiques, he couldn't figure out how to make those things, let alone why writing a few words or smearing some ink and wash would make them feel better. It can be sold at such a high price, so I have to tell me that this thing is very valuable, and then I will inevitably add how many first-class Beiliang horses and how many Beiliang swords can be bought with this thing. Over the past few years, I Let Jinglue envoy Li Gongde, Lingzhou governor Xu Beizhi, and Song Dongming help secretly sell rare calligraphy and paintings, watching boxes of things being moved out of Qingliang Mountain, General Ning, do you know what I am thinking?"
Ning Emei shook her head solemnly.
Xu Fengnian joked: "I just want to complain to Xu Xiao, you lost money back then."
Ning Emei couldn't help but laugh.
Xu Fengnian restrained his smile, "Let's not talk about it, let's just say that Bai Yu has only been in Qingliang Mountain for a few days, and he has already fallen in love with Song Dongming. How can I make Zhou Kang and Gu Dazu get along well? The Beiliang old soldiers who looked at me high, one is a foreigner I have finally invited, one is in the cavalry army, and the other is in the infantry army. It is wrong for me to speak for anyone in the meeting hall today. Family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, family affairs, Wang Linquan, who has vaguely become the God of Wealth in Beiliang, and Lu Dongjiang, who is depressed and frustrated, are two fathers-in-law and two in-laws. They fall together. It stands to reason that I should help the Lu family who is not acclimatized, but can the Lu family really help them? ? And among them, I just don't want to delve into Wang Linquan's schemes against the Lu family's children. One is too smart, the other is too stupid, and it hits off right away."
Ning Emei sighed, speechless. I dare not say anything, and I don't know what to say.
Xu Fengnian looked at Ning Emei, and joked, "Do you think it's not easy for me to be in charge?"
Ning Emei, who had been seen through her mind, nodded, perhaps because she was worried that she would be taken as a sycophant, and said in a deep voice: "The general really thinks so!"
Xu Fengnian said: "I'm just complaining, and it's actually very easy to drink a little wine with you. What's really not easy is Liu Jinu and all the people who have engraved their names on the Qingliangshan stone tablet."
Xu Fengnian put down his wine glass, "But what's more difficult is you Ning Emei and Zhou Kang Gu Dazu, it's you people."
Xu Fengnian exhaled heavily, and stood up, "Perhaps in Liyang, there will be places like Beiliang. In this great world where everyone can live, some people are willing to die. But there must be no other place. There are so many people who are willing to die together."
Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at Ning Emei, "I don't feel sorry for the things in those boxes that are sold cheaply to dignitaries from other Taoism. Even if Qingliang Mountain is evacuated, my Xu family will be empty one day, it doesn't matter."
Xu Fengnian twitched the corner of his mouth, not knowing whether it was the sword energy in his body, or what, showing a look of gnashing his teeth, and said viciously: "But the real family property that Xu Xiao left me, such as 300,000 cavalry. Queen of Beiliang, even if one dies, I feel sorry for her. Another example is the morale of my Xu family army, if I lose a point in my hands, I will feel guilty!"
Ning Emei thought of a word for no reason.
Those who think too much will be tired, and those who are heavy-hearted will be bitter.
Xu Fengnian suddenly laughed, and said softly: "You know that this time I passed by the mansion of He Zhonghu, the commander of the Right Cavalry Army, and saw the old generals Wei Tieshan and Liu Yuanji who were going to visit the sick, do you know what they thought? Among them, Liu Yuanji He told me a few words from the bottom of his heart. The old man said that in just 20 years, the young lieutenant Zhong Hongwu, who would take the lead in every fight to the death, could become the later Huaihua University who holds great power but only knows how to eliminate dissidents in the army. General, Liu Yuanji told me that we must cherish the current Beiliang iron cavalry, and I’m afraid we won’t see them again in 20 or 30 years. So he and Wei Tieshan must die while they can still ride a horse and carry a knife Before seeing the Northern Liang army like that."
Ning Emei took a sip of wine and murmured in a low voice, "It's a joy to be born and die in Beiliang!"
After talking to herself, Ning Emei, who pays great attention to details, carefully placed the wine glass in her hand. She seemed to feel that the position was not right, and even moved it. Ask, I drank wine today, or else I would be too daring to ask boldly?"
Xu Fengnian froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "Just ask."
Ning Emei grinned and asked: "The general just wants to know if one day Beiliang's 300,000 cavalry are gone, will you regret it, my lord?"
Xu Fengnian said without hesitation: "Nonsense! You must regret death, the kind of regret!"
Ning Emei scratched her head, she didn't seem to have any disappointed expression on her face, instead she just smiled and said, "Sure enough. The prince is good at business. As for buying people's hearts, he is always a poor layman."
Xu Fengnian laughed out loud.
Ning Emei said sternly: "But I know that even if you know that you will kill 300,000 cavalry, the prince will still make the same choice when you start over."
Xu Fengnian hummed, "I can see it too. In recent years, my ability to buy people's hearts is so-so, but General Ning is good at flattering."
Ning Emei smiled calmly: "If Old General Liu is right, it's just right to die right now!"